:00:02. > :00:05.Good evening and welcome to Look North. Our top story tonight:
:00:05. > :00:10.Fighting for the right to earn a living - disabled workers from
:00:10. > :00:14.across Yorkshire protest about the threat to their jobs.
:00:14. > :00:17.Also tonight: Coping with the brutal killing of a child. Ten
:00:17. > :00:27.years on from the abduction and murder of her daughter, a Yorkshire
:00:27. > :00:28.
:00:28. > :00:36.mother says she will never forgive the man who did it. If you lose a
:00:36. > :00:39.leg, it is still not there. Lee and is not here and I feel the same.
:00:39. > :00:48.And from the artist that brought us the Angel of the North, two new
:00:48. > :00:58.sculptures by Antony Gormley are unveiled in Yorkshire.
:00:58. > :01:00.
:01:00. > :01:01.And join me for the weather. I will have a full forecast later in the
:01:01. > :01:04.programme. Protests have been taking place
:01:04. > :01:08.across Yorkshire by disabled people who are worried they could lose
:01:08. > :01:14.their jobs. They all work at Remploy factories, which were
:01:14. > :01:20.originally set up to provide work for disabled people after the war.
:01:20. > :01:25.The factories lose �63 million a year. A report for the government
:01:25. > :01:28.recommended cutting funding to Remploy factories. In a moment, we
:01:28. > :01:34.will hear from the Conservative MP for Calder Valley, Craig Whittaker,
:01:34. > :01:44.and also from a member of the GMB union, Tony Gledhill. But first,
:01:44. > :01:46.
:01:46. > :01:51.Len Tingle reports. A clear message from a Remploy
:01:51. > :01:58.workers who gathered outside the department of work and pensions in
:01:58. > :02:05.Sheffield. They believe the factories are essential. Among them,
:02:05. > :02:11.Tony from Leeds. I have got problems with my arms and knees.
:02:11. > :02:18.When I came to Remploy, they recognised my strengths and
:02:18. > :02:23.weaknesses. I did different training. My job now is to help
:02:23. > :02:33.young people like I had a chance to give them that chance.
:02:33. > :02:39.Remploy was started in 1946. Though far from exclusively for veterans,
:02:39. > :02:44.its workshops and factories grew in numbers, supplying products for
:02:44. > :02:48.customers ranging from Jaguar cars up to the armed forces. But
:02:48. > :02:58.Remploy's workforce and trade unions have a problem. The rally
:02:58. > :03:02.had moved on to a meeting by this afternoon to Wakefield Town Hall.
:03:02. > :03:06.A government report published in June of challengers whether
:03:06. > :03:11.employment for the disabled is appropriate in a modern society,
:03:11. > :03:15.and whether an annual subsidy of �25,000 for each worker could be
:03:15. > :03:21.better spent giving support to commercial companies to take on
:03:21. > :03:26.more disabled people. Some people would never survive at there. They
:03:26. > :03:32.would not last a day with their disability.
:03:32. > :03:35.As the work is finished their rally, a statement was issued saying no
:03:35. > :03:43.decision had been made on the future of the company.
:03:43. > :03:51.Consultations will begin next month. Thank you very much. Joining us to
:03:51. > :03:57.discuss the issue is Craig Whittaker, and Tony from the GMB
:03:57. > :04:04.union. Tony, you work for Remploy. What do you think it offers
:04:04. > :04:14.workers? It gives them the chance to shine at work. We give them
:04:14. > :04:19.
:04:19. > :04:25.skills. You cannot put confidence in someone, it has to come from
:04:25. > :04:31.them. Becoming independence is more then it just a job. To me, the
:04:31. > :04:35.product we use is commercial, and the figures we get is the training
:04:35. > :04:43.vehicle for disabled people to make choices. Once they get trained up,
:04:43. > :04:52.and become complement, they can -- become confident, they can make a
:04:52. > :04:59.choice whether to stay at Remploy or move on. Neat, I have chosen to
:04:59. > :05:09.stay at Remploy. -- me. I get respect at Remploy. The Ealing's
:05:09. > :05:10.
:05:10. > :05:15.are very high here. Will you listen to what these people have to say?
:05:15. > :05:23.Absolutely. The Remploy model for employment is not a bad thing at
:05:23. > :05:29.all. What we are having tonight is, is that the best model? Does it
:05:29. > :05:34.offer the best opportunities for disabled people? Clearly,
:05:34. > :05:38.mainstream employers are less likely to want to provide
:05:38. > :05:46.facilities for people with disabilities. �63 million is not a
:05:46. > :05:51.small sum of money. Is that money best serving disabled people? I do
:05:51. > :06:01.not know the answer to that. The consultation will bring out the
:06:01. > :06:07.best thing, I dare say. Two people in my constituency, one of them
:06:07. > :06:13.would argue I am disabled. He runs his own business. He would argue
:06:13. > :06:17.that the best thing for people like Stephen it is a personalised agenda.
:06:17. > :06:23.You are saying you could spend the money elsewhere. But let us come
:06:23. > :06:31.back to you, Tony. You have worked in employment and you'd struggle to
:06:31. > :06:41.cope, didn't you? A white beard. I cannot live to head the weights. --
:06:41. > :06:41.
:06:41. > :06:44.I did. In the Remploy, I have got a chance to use my brains. I do not
:06:44. > :06:52.accept the argument that the government have not made a decision.
:06:52. > :06:56.We have said in his report, the government have to accept the
:06:56. > :07:02.recommendations. Everyone will beat offered compulsory redundancy at
:07:02. > :07:07.the same time. We have heard a lot. We will continue to look at this
:07:07. > :07:10.issue in depth. Thank you to both of you.
:07:10. > :07:12.The mother of a teenager who was strangled to death after being
:07:12. > :07:14.abducted says she will never forgive her daughter's killer. The
:07:14. > :07:17.murder of 16-year-old Leanne Tiernan, from Bramley near Leeds,
:07:17. > :07:19.sparked one of the largest enquiries ever mounted by West
:07:19. > :07:24.Yorkshire Police. This weekend marks the tenth anniversary of the
:07:24. > :07:27.discovery of her body in woodland near Otley. Today, Leanne's mother
:07:27. > :07:37.told Look North the pain of losing a loving daughter will never go
:07:37. > :07:38.
:07:38. > :07:44.away. She was a normal, fun-loving
:07:44. > :07:49.teenager. She was acquired at times and could be shive. -- quiet at
:07:49. > :07:52.times. A decade may have passed since the
:07:52. > :07:58.body of Leanne Tiernan was discovered, but for her mother, the
:07:58. > :08:03.emotion of that date is still raw. If you imagine losing a leg, it
:08:03. > :08:09.does not matter if it was yesterday or 10 years later, it is still not
:08:09. > :08:14.there. You learn to deal with things better, but it is still
:08:14. > :08:19.there. Lehane is not here, and I still feel the same.
:08:20. > :08:26.Cool disappeared after taking a short cut through Bramley. Her body
:08:26. > :08:30.was found eight months later near Otley. She had been strangled.
:08:30. > :08:40.Police suspected the killer was a local. Detectives identified a man
:08:40. > :08:44.who lived nearby. Samples of her blood was found on the floor boards.
:08:45. > :08:54.John Taylor was sentence for Leanne Tiernan's murder. Can you forgive
:08:54. > :08:57.them? No. He has tested need to breaking point. I do not understand
:08:57. > :09:05.how people can ask me how I can forgive him.
:09:05. > :09:10.The people were able to link him to other unsolved crimes. The police
:09:10. > :09:17.never gave up, but were you grateful for their efforts? I was
:09:17. > :09:20.very grateful, yes. They would not have got the person that did it. At
:09:20. > :09:25.least he will not be able to do it to anyone else.
:09:25. > :09:33.A mugger's killer may be behind bars, but the mother feels she has
:09:33. > :09:41.been given a life sentence. -- Leanne Tiernan's killer.
:09:41. > :09:51.Later on tonight: All the sport. I can confirm that England's have
:09:51. > :09:53.the Aussies on the ropes. The over- sixties Ashes series, that is.
:09:53. > :09:56.A 40-year-old man has appeared at Leeds Magistrates Court charged
:09:56. > :09:58.with two counts of attempted murder following a double stabbing in
:09:58. > :10:02.Garforth. Leslie Cunningham was arrested on Wednesday following an
:10:02. > :10:05.attack on a mother and daughter on Bar Lane on August 2nd. A 55-year-
:10:05. > :10:15.old woman remains in hospital while her 25-year-old daughter was
:10:15. > :10:16.
:10:16. > :10:22.released earlier this week. A businessman who died after
:10:22. > :10:27.falling from his Segway scooter has left an estate to his family. He
:10:27. > :10:33.made his fortune in equipment used to protect soldiers serving in
:10:34. > :10:37.Afghanistan and Iraq. The foam of minor donated millions of pounds to
:10:37. > :10:42.charity. -- former miner. Next tonight, an extraordinary
:10:42. > :10:44.story of one family's history. In her mid thirties, Felicity Davis
:10:44. > :10:47.from Scarborough transformed her life by studying to become a
:10:47. > :10:50.teacher. But as a child, she had suffered physical and psychological
:10:50. > :10:53.abuse by her grandmother. Her own mother seemed powerless to
:10:53. > :10:56.intervene. She wanted to find out why and researched her family tree.
:10:56. > :11:05.The remarkable result has just been turned into a book, Guard A Silver
:11:05. > :11:11.Sixpence. Tom Ingall met Felicity to find out more.
:11:11. > :11:16.In a few weeks' time, Felicity will have a new class of the year seven
:11:16. > :11:21.students. But it is not so long since she was a pupil in
:11:21. > :11:26.Scarborough in this very room. She was a single mother of three with
:11:27. > :11:32.two failed marriages and absolutely broke. Then she went back to school.
:11:32. > :11:40.A fight always felt I needed to do something more. They were talking
:11:40. > :11:44.about access courses for people like myself.
:11:44. > :11:49.A degree, Career Success, and a head teaching qualification later,
:11:49. > :11:57.her life could not have changed more.
:11:57. > :12:01.The there were three houses on there? Yes, there were. The she
:12:01. > :12:07.took me to quarry Mount in Scarborough.
:12:07. > :12:13.Every night, she would suffer abuse at the hands of her grandmother.
:12:13. > :12:22.Her own mother seemingly powerless to intervene. She would make me say
:12:22. > :12:28.the Lord's Prayer after hitting a. I was in trouble when I did not get
:12:28. > :12:32.it right. That is the memory I took from those years.
:12:32. > :12:39.She decided to research her family story, and what lay behind that
:12:39. > :12:45.chartered. Her research letter to Barnsley. It
:12:45. > :12:49.led her to events almost as many years ago. George Square was packed
:12:49. > :12:55.tightly packed with terraced houses, and it was here Felicity's great
:12:55. > :13:01.grandmother lived. She was married to an abusive husband. But she also
:13:01. > :13:05.had a younger lover. Tired of witnessing the beatings, he
:13:06. > :13:10.murdered Emily's husband. But she was found guilty as well for not
:13:10. > :13:15.preventing the telling. Rough justice by today's standards, but
:13:15. > :13:20.it was a case that went all the way to the gallows.
:13:20. > :13:28.Emily was the only woman to be executed in Leeds. Her daughter
:13:28. > :13:35.would grow up to be Felicity's abusive grand mother. Today, Emily
:13:35. > :13:42.is buried outside the prison walls. Felicity believes the effect on her
:13:42. > :13:48.was profound. I cried. It hit my heart straight away. I have a very
:13:48. > :13:54.mixed picture of the grand mother that terrorised me as a child.
:13:54. > :14:01.The past dealt with, she has turned the story into a book. Its job is
:14:01. > :14:06.to start the family a course in future. You want to pass on to your
:14:06. > :14:16.children: But these are the lessons of the past. Do not make the same
:14:16. > :14:22.
:14:22. > :14:27.mistakes I did. Making a noise to ban a steel bands
:14:27. > :14:35.from the Leeds Carnival. And new arrivals in Yorkshire from the
:14:35. > :14:40.sculptor of the Angel of the North. The weekend is here and we can have
:14:40. > :14:47.some sport now. The Ashes is taking place in Leeds tonight. You have to
:14:47. > :14:53.be over 60 to be in the team. Somebody very young is there for
:14:53. > :14:58.I thought you were suggesting I was old enough to play in the team! And
:14:58. > :15:03.what a start to the sporting weekend. England have beaten
:15:03. > :15:10.Australia by 135 runs. The Australian over-sixties were bowled
:15:10. > :15:15.out for 149. This is the first of a three-match series. We will find
:15:15. > :15:19.out about the over-sixties shortly. Now, football. After three matches
:15:19. > :15:22.of the league season, South Yorkshire is the place to be with
:15:22. > :15:26.Rotherham United top of League Two. Sheffield United are second in
:15:26. > :15:32.League One and looking difficult to beat.
:15:32. > :15:36.That special night on Tuesday against Walsall what made it up
:15:36. > :15:40.three wins out of three for Sheffield United. You could say it
:15:40. > :15:44.was one in the eye for those who made the manager less than welcome
:15:44. > :15:49.when he was appointed in the summer on account of his Sheffield
:15:49. > :15:55.Wednesday allegiances. He will not bear a grudge about that. Or the
:15:55. > :16:02.fact he took over an essentially relegated team. It get sued know
:16:02. > :16:10.where, looking back all the time. - they get you nowhere. You have to
:16:10. > :16:15.look forward. We have to turn the team into a team that can win games.
:16:15. > :16:19.We have had a good start. Hopefully that will continue and people will
:16:19. > :16:23.forget where the manager was previously. He is here and
:16:24. > :16:30.committed to this club, like we all are. He wants the best that
:16:30. > :16:34.Sheffield United. Their reward for the three wins is a place in the
:16:34. > :16:39.top two and a few days by the riverside. The River Mersey, that
:16:39. > :16:47.is. Everton next week in the League Cup. Tomorrow at Tranmere is higher
:16:47. > :16:54.on the agenda. We need to win games. If it means a bruising battle, it
:16:54. > :17:00.will have to be that way. Gone are the cries of "Wilson out!". He is
:17:00. > :17:06.very much in at around Bramall Lane Bizet's.
:17:06. > :17:10.Was there some fall-out -- these days. Was there some fall-out at
:17:10. > :17:16.Huddersfield Town after a press conference today? Yes. The manager
:17:16. > :17:21.took the opportunity to make criticism of his own of the media
:17:21. > :17:27.who he accused of stirring up a Hornet's nest and of the fans who
:17:27. > :17:31.had been criticising him on Tuesday during the draw against Hartlepool.
:17:31. > :17:36.It illustrates the expectation levels that he is working under at
:17:36. > :17:41.Huddersfield Town. They have not lost yet, but they have not won
:17:41. > :17:47.either. They will hope for better things tomorrow. It should be a
:17:47. > :17:54.good day for Yorkshire at Scarborough. Sussex created a lead
:17:54. > :17:58.Scarborough. Sussex created a lead of 136 and runs. Well done to Joe
:17:58. > :18:04.of 136 and runs. Well done to Joe Root who finished with 160.
:18:04. > :18:07.Speaking of cricket, or we can talk to an Australian friend. This is
:18:07. > :18:14.the tour organiser of the over sixties Australian team. Feeling
:18:14. > :18:19.sorry for yourself because you have been beaten? Not really. It was a
:18:19. > :18:24.first test and it really was a test for the boys. England played well.
:18:24. > :18:30.The Australian boys are getting it together. We have come out of our
:18:30. > :18:34.winter season. We only had a couple of matches leading up to this.
:18:34. > :18:39.is a three-match series. You start in Yorkshire. I assume that is
:18:39. > :18:46.because it is a good night out in Leeds! We started in Chester.
:18:46. > :18:55.Yorkshire is a great place to be. Great hospitality. It is
:18:55. > :18:59.sensational here in Leeds. We can talk to the Yorkshire manager. This
:18:59. > :19:09.is a prestigious home of the Yorkshire Academy. How difficult
:19:09. > :19:10.
:19:10. > :19:15.was it to organise? When they said they wanted a Test match in Leeds I
:19:15. > :19:24.asked if they could arrange a match here. This is a big community of
:19:24. > :19:29.players, the over-sixties. We are looking for good players who want
:19:29. > :19:36.to play at 60 years old. You are using Look North as a recruitment
:19:36. > :19:42.platform! There are two Yorkshire- based player's in the team today.
:19:42. > :19:46.They move on to Wales for the next match. I fear that the Australians
:19:46. > :19:54.will conquer the sporting world one day, maybe even at soccer against
:19:55. > :20:03.England. At the moment, the Ashes order is restored.
:20:03. > :20:07.His rod OK, did he get hit today? He looks as if he has an injury.
:20:07. > :20:17.Who? The gentleman behind you. Was he
:20:17. > :20:17.
:20:17. > :20:22.hit by a cricket ball? Yesterday. Just playing a shot. You would do
:20:22. > :20:26.it to us if we did not do it two- year! We are friends, really.
:20:26. > :20:31.And a 60-year-old still coming out after being hit in the face by a
:20:31. > :20:36.cricket ball! It is an excuse for a party and a
:20:36. > :20:41.chance to celebrate West Indian culture in Chapeltown. And a big
:20:41. > :20:51.part of the Leeds carnival is the steel drums. But this year they
:20:51. > :20:59.have been banned for safety reasons. This has created controversy.
:20:59. > :21:04.For many people, they are the soundtrack of the carnival. They
:21:04. > :21:11.are a traditional West Indian instrument, turning old oil drums
:21:11. > :21:16.into something more pleasing. And, for the past 13 years, Victoria has
:21:16. > :21:22.taken hers to the Leeds Carnival. But, because of the recent unrest
:21:22. > :21:27.in the area, there will be no its steel drums in the parade this year.
:21:27. > :21:34.I do not see any logic. The worst thing is we have been looking
:21:34. > :21:42.forward to it. We have practised and we know our staff. These are
:21:42. > :21:46.award-winning steel band players. But at the steel bands have been
:21:46. > :21:51.deemed too risky in the current climate. Trouble in the area and an
:21:51. > :22:00.arson attack on the carnival headquarters, the organisers say
:22:00. > :22:05.they are being cautious. It is just one of those things, we have made
:22:05. > :22:15.the decision. We will not have a steel band. In the light of the
:22:15. > :22:20.disturbances we have had. The only place there will be a steel band is
:22:20. > :22:25.on the stage, traditionally where Victoria's group played, but this
:22:25. > :22:33.year occupied by the new world steel orchestra. For many people,
:22:33. > :22:37.the sound of the steel band is synonymous with. But this year, the
:22:37. > :22:43.sound will be muted. -- with Carnival.
:22:43. > :22:47.That is a shame. It is. They thought about that and
:22:47. > :22:51.they are very careful. The sculptor Antony Gormley is best
:22:51. > :22:54.known for his iconic Angel of the North. But now he has created two
:22:54. > :22:58.new works for Harewood House near Leeds. He's been at the house today
:22:58. > :23:01.to see the work in situ for the first time. Made of iron that's
:23:01. > :23:03.been left out in the rain to rust, the sculptures were designed
:23:03. > :23:13.especially for the Terrace Gallery at Harewood. Cathy Killick's been
:23:13. > :23:21.
:23:21. > :23:31.to meet the artist and see the work. Two Estates is the title of this
:23:31. > :23:37.
:23:37. > :23:40.work. It consists of iron blocks They are clever. They look like
:23:40. > :23:48.precariously stacked building blocks. When you move around them,
:23:48. > :23:54.suddenly, yes, there is the human figure. It is recognisably an
:23:54. > :24:00.Antony Gormley. He is famous for the Angel of the North. And, more
:24:00. > :24:07.recently this sculpture on Crosby beach in Liverpool. Here, he wanted
:24:07. > :24:15.to show frailty as well as strength. They weigh half a ton each, but
:24:15. > :24:22.they feel, in this room, fragile. I guess what I was trying to express
:24:22. > :24:29.with this work was the fact that we are towers. We are like high-rise
:24:29. > :24:34.skyscrapers. At the same time, we are relatively vulnerable. Over 20
:24:34. > :24:40.years ago he proposed to build a monumental brick man in Leeds. This
:24:40. > :24:46.is how it would have looked. The council turned it down. It would
:24:46. > :24:56.have cost six per hundred �1,000. do not think Leeds is any less
:24:56. > :24:56.
:24:56. > :25:06.wonderful. -- �600,000. I often go past the triangle and think that
:25:06. > :25:11.work should have been there. But we made the angel and I do not want to
:25:11. > :25:16.make two monumental works in Britain. For many art lovers in
:25:16. > :25:24.Yorkshire, that is sad news. But they can console themselves with
:25:24. > :25:30.this new work. It is on display until the end of October.
:25:30. > :25:33.Is he suggesting people are like tower-blocks? There is a strength.
:25:33. > :25:41.I am a tower of strength! Let's I am a tower of strength! Let's
:25:41. > :25:51.have the weather. There will be sunshine this weekend.
:25:51. > :25:53.
:25:53. > :25:59.We can look at a night's We can look at a night's
:25:59. > :26:04.photographs. We had sunshine today. photographs. We had sunshine today.
:26:04. > :26:11.Keep your photographs coming in. It has clouded over throughout the
:26:11. > :26:16.second part of the afternoon, but tomorrow it looks dry. Temperatures
:26:17. > :26:22.around 20 degrees. The rest of Yorkshire will have sunshine. It
:26:22. > :26:31.will turn cloudy as we head through the afternoon. The reason is this
:26:31. > :26:36.weather front. Today, it clouded over from the West. There is a risk
:26:36. > :26:45.of light rain this evening. That will continue through the night.
:26:45. > :26:55.But for most, it will stay dry. Most at risk of patchy rain are the
:26:55. > :26:58.
:26:58. > :27:06.Pennines, the Yorkshire Dales and the North Yorkshire Moors. Tomorrow,
:27:06. > :27:11.the sun will rise at 5:54am. Tomorrow, the cloud will break-up
:27:11. > :27:18.during the morning and we will see plenty more sunshine. The best
:27:18. > :27:24.sunshine will be during the morning. It is a cloudy picture for South
:27:24. > :27:31.Yorkshire in the afternoon. We will see light rain. That will move